Republicans, conservatives who support gay marriage

More than 130 Republicans signed an amicus brief supporting same-sex marriage submitted to the Supreme Court recently. Still other Republicans and conservatives have voiced their support for gay marriage over the years.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter married her partner in 2011, endorsed gay marriage in 2011. (March 12, 2007)

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican U.S. senator, signed an executive order in 2012 that ordered all state agencies to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere and to afford those couples many of the same rights and benefits that heterosexual couples get. (Jan. 15, 2013)